The Five_Charlie Hadn't Thought of a Tally System_Dive_The Pandemic: Ten Years After
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The Five
We sat on the limb of the tree, balancing precariously over the ground, twenty feet in the air. We’d climbed up the trunk, using the ample branches to haul ourselves to the very top. Looking down felt like falling, looking up made us feel like we were flying. We were gods up there, us three, like the eldest sons of Cronus, king of the sky. I was Zeus, my friends were Poseidon and Hades. Our lives had just changed completely, Poseidon was moving away, pulled by the crest of the waves of life. He had been my friend for as long as I can remember. I felt like Zeus at the moment, ready to hurl bol...
Charlie Hadn't Thought of a Tally System
They had been here for…. A while. Charlie could see the sun through the tower window so they knew it was daytime but besides that?Charlie started the day just like every other one; pruning their flowers.They knew they weren't going anywhere just like yesterday, and the day before, and th-- you get the point. So they didn’t change and they didn’t put on makeup and they didn’t brush their hair. It isn’t like there was much to brush, Charlie had cut it short the day they realized nobody was coming to get them.That day hadn’t really been anything special either,www.onedoor.cc it was cold and they had run out of...
Dive
She looked back for the last time, her heart thumping in her chest. And then she jumped.She felt the wind on her face as she fell, the breeze hitting her with a thousand needles, dragging her hair upward. She wanted to close her eyes, her arms splayed out, letting the world rise to greet her. To forget it all, and just stay here, like this, as if nothing had ever changed. But she also wanted to see every single moment.So she peeled her eyelids apart, the light squeezing between them, the wind streaking tears that rose onto the tips of her ears. She kept falling. She saw the distant mountains, ...
The Pandemic: Ten Years After
"Get inside the house, Hunter," I shouted at my seven-year-old kid. He ran at the door holding his yellow toy car. He just stood and leaned at the door. I let him play outside just as long as I'm outside too. "Be careful Mommy," he shouted back. "Get inside. Close the door!" He complied. I roamed my eyes outside the four feet fence. Here they are again. Head tilted to one side, hands swayed on their sides, legs marched slowly and mouth drooled with blood that turned black over the time. Smell of decayed flesh filled the air. Five of them were approaching my fence. Five steps away…...